# Site Progress? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083 "2025-09-16T13:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/1 "2025-09-16T13:44:30Z")
@Julie-Lent-Managing-Editor @cdaquila Has there been any progress on the Cartalk Community site being more secure against Spam. The reason I ask is that it seems that the only new posters have been Spammers . Also unless I missed it are the Carcomplaints not being moved to here ? ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/2 "2025-09-17T13:08:08Z")
I too was wondering about “ask someone”, nothing there since the spam attack. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/3 "2025-09-17T16:35:02Z")
I recall two people asking for the “Ask Someone” category to be discontinued, now you have the peace and quiet you asked for. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/4 "2025-09-18T09:58:05Z")
> [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > it seems that the only new posters have been Spammers . That’s the Fakebook effect. People would rather go argue and fight over there than get advice on a moderated subject(cars, gardening, home theater, whatever) forum. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/5 "2025-09-21T04:19:58Z")
Looks to me that some words are getting blacked out. I thought it was my computer doing it but happened several times now. Like the feds used to monitor for word usage that could get you on a list. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/6 "2025-09-21T06:00:24Z")
Like misspelled words? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 6:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/7 "2025-09-21T06:57:19Z")
Nope. Real words like s c u m. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/8 "2025-09-21T07:49:59Z")
> [@bing](#): > > s c u m .. has no place on subject moderated forums like ours, unless it is in reference to something stuck to the underside of a car or inside a throttle body. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/9 "2025-09-21T12:44:00Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Looks to me that some words are getting blacked out. I have noticed it also, looks like little individual black boxes per letter or whatever, I haven’t been able to figure out what the words are though and I have seen it on members that I would not expect to have words in need of being redacted… Here is just one example… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/d/9/d964f0a7e2da586354af400da90e155cb9f53e2a.png) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/10 "2025-09-21T13:26:35Z")
> [@Does replacing an oil filter waste oil?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/does-replacing-an-oil-filter-waste-oil/204098/8): > > Naw, pretty sure he’s legal. Nice old guy. Not part of the ■■■■ involved in the Minnesota fraud cases. They are from another continent. Here’s the complete remark you refer to. Using “■■■■” in this context can be viewed as at least hateful and easily as racist. Interesting: I typed in s c u m without the spaces and it was automatically blacked out. I wonder how much Car Talk pays for auto-redaction? AI rules! There’s more than one way to interpret my last remark. I guess that we can’t mention soap ■■■■ when we discuss washing our cars. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/11 "2025-09-21T13:50:41Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > Interesting: I typed in s c u m without the spaces and it was automatically blacked out. I wonder how much Car Talk pays for auto-redaction? Yeah just typed several different “bad” words and they were automatically redacted… ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/12 "2025-09-21T16:04:40Z")
Yeah I see what you did jt. Saved the comment so that I couldn’t edit it out. Another guy on here likes to do that too and saves them for recall later. Thanks though cause I hardly remember what I said yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/13 "2025-09-21T16:20:24Z")
You would think that a post would have been made that the Forum has loaded a program to filter out offensive words and phrases. It seems that feed back from Forum members is not wanted. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/14 "2025-09-21T16:28:33Z")
Another site I frequent that is lead by prominent lawyers does the same thing. I don’t post there but folks get around it the same way. Like AAA a couple violations and you end up banned. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/15 "2025-09-21T16:54:52Z")
It’s mostly for others that don’t know what I was referring to without the full quote. The conversation is for all of us. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/16 "2025-09-22T01:09:03Z")
Years ago when I had the forums, I had manually added and set most “offensive” words to automatically change to a word of my choosing, sometimes I would go in and pick a word and change it to something goofy just to mess with people… lol I don’t think that the admin needed to ask for feedback about adding a program to filter out certain words, as they would almost always get flagged anyway, this just makes less work for the admins as now they don’t have to deal with flagged post over “offensive” words… I also don’t think they needed to make a thread/post about redacted words as it is pretty obvious it is happening… ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/17 "2025-09-22T13:25:45Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > I don’t think that the admin needed to ask for feedback about adding a program to filter out certain words Well I think you are wrong. There needs to be feed back and efforts to keep members informed to changes . Already some blacked out words did not need to be blacked out. Not going to name the person but one member here had a habit of replacing a letter or two in swear words and I flagged them so will this program catch that practice. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/18 "2025-09-22T13:40:10Z")
Are they not getting unsolicited feed back right now??? No idea, but since you know what the posters words that were replacing a letter or two, then type them out here, look to your right at the preview and it will show you if it blocks them out or not… ---
**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/19 "2025-09-22T14:59:33Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > look to your right at the preview I’m not sure if it’s something I did or not, but I no longer have preview ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083/20 "2025-09-22T15:12:27Z")
In the same line with Reply/Discard below the text box is a double arrow icon on the right. Click on it and you will get the preview back. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-progress/204083.md?page=2)